Controlling Majorana hybridization in magnetic chain-superconductor systems
Oladunjoye A. Awoga, Ioannis Ioannidis, Archana Mishra, Martin Leijnse, Mircea Trif, Thore Posske
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033154 · Physical Review Research
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Abstract
We propose controlling the hybridization between Majorana zero modes at the ends of magnetic adatom chains on superconductors by an additional magnetic adatom deposited close by. By tuning the additional adatom's magnetization, position, and coupling to the superconductor, we can couple and decouple the Majorana modes, as well as control the ground-state parity. The scheme is independent of microscopic details in ferromagnetic and helical magnetic chains on superconductors, with and without spin-orbit coupling, which we show by studying their full microscopic models and their common low-energy description. Our results show that scanning tunneling microscopy and electron-spin-resonance techniques are promising tools for controlling the Majorana hybridization in magnetic adatoms-superconductor setups, providing a basis for Majorana parity measurements, fusion, and braiding techniques.
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